Don't feel bad. As an American living in Canada I remember NBC's coverage and know first hand how much better olympic coverage is here than in the states. Someone a few posts above was moaning about how NBC has all this hype and half-hour specials detailing some atheltes life and blah blah blah ad nauseum instead of showing the sports. And it made me glad that I'm here to enjoy this year's olympics. We aren't missing anything.
No, I don't think it's unfair to pay more for a nicer car. That's because to make a nicer car more effort has to be made, more hours have to be worked, more ideas have to be thought over, than for a cheap car.
But that's not the situation with these Windows versions. Microsoft has a version that does everything. And they have deliberately handicapped the cheaper versions. It wouldn't take any extra manpower, extra parts or extra storage to give everyone the full version. But because it will lead to more money Microsoft is labeling each version with these false values.
Well, what you say is more understandable. But still, it doesn't take much research to learn that if you need to pick a distro for a company you can't really go wrong with Redhat or SUSE.
But really, saying that there's too many Linux distros isn't what gets zealots like me all in a knot. What is really irritating about these Windows versions is that capability was taken out of some versions on purpose. Instead of making the product better, some "developers" have been paid to actaully make the product worse. Such insanity would never happen in the open source world. If I pick the 'wrong' distro at least it's functionality isn't being limited on purpose.
Jesus fucking christ, don't be so ignorant. The only limitation to a Linux installation is the kernel. Anything else can be added without even rebooting.
But that's besides the point. The point is that there is no company or other entity telling someone what they can and can't do with their Linux installation just because they didn't pay enough money. Unlike this case with Windows where people will have to make trade offs between how much they want to spend and what they want to do with their OS.
So complaining and comparing the many Linux distros to these 8 Windows versions is fucking retarded. I can choose any of the top 8 Linux distros and be able to do anything in the Linux world easily.
But if I choose the budget version of Windows and find that it won't let me do something, well then I'm shit out of luck.
So let me get this straight. Some code is released under an open license and a proprietary company uses it line for line and that's perfectly fine legally and karma wise, but an open source project makes their stuff look vaguely like the proprietary company's stuff and it's called ripping it off? That's silly. Which one took more creativity? The verbatim copying or the slight similarities in look and feel which still had to be coded from scratch?
And your post shows how Apple can be a real dick. "We can take code from your project because it's open sourced, but don't you dare make your projects 'look' like ours or we'll sick the lawyers on you". Assholes.
Actually, that has been implemented since at least 2.12. Choosing 'Open' starts you in whatever directory you were already in, not your home directory. Typing a "/" opens a path bar for you to type in a location. Typing a letter brings you to the first file in that directory that starts with that letter. The AC you responded to just doesn't know what he's talking about.
Agreed. And what you're talking about is just for a business. Imagine how much more important it is to a whole country who may not be on good terms with the country producing the software.
The enemy's products, whose source code you can't see, is the farthest possible thing from "the right tool for the job".
One drawback to ppc Linux is that the commercial closed source programs offered for Linux are only x86. That includes 'free-beer' stuff too, like Acroread and flash. This was one of the reasons that kept me from buying another Mac.
If these new Macs eventually run Linux flawlessly I may get one.
You know, I wanted focus follows mouse for a long time, but then I realized that if you had focus follows mouse, you'd never be able to choose anything in the menus, unless you dragged the window to the top of the screen first to make sure it was the topmost window on your way to the menubar. So not only would you have to have focus follows mouse, but also menus tied to individual apps instead of globally. Forget about it.
Sounds like that's a problem with having the menubar at the top of the screen. What would be nice is if OSX gave you a choice in the matter. Both with the menubar and focus-follows-mouse.
Searches for all these have come up negative so far as I'm aware, but there is still good reason to hope for a discovery soon.
Well then, good news everyone! Neutrinos were found to be massive a few years ago. The Sudbury neutrino observatory showed that solar neutrinos travel to earth in a superposition of two different types of neutrinos. They observed oscillations with respect to time between the measured populations of the two states meaning that the energies of the two states were different. For their energies to be different there must be some mass difference which places a lower bound on at least one of their masses.
The first extra-solar planets were detected by noticing that the stars they orbited wobbled slightly. No one actually saw the planets, they just came to the conclusion that the wobble was caused by a massive body rotating the star. One could conclude that the wobble was caused by God or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but that would be ignoring a lack of evidence, namely that we've never observed God or Flying Spaghetti Monster.
There are four fundamental forces. The weak and strong forces are too short range to hold planets or stars or solar systems or galaxies together. No celestial object has ever been found to hold a large net charge, so the electromagnetic force is out as well. That leaves gravity, the force that has so far explained every single observation of moving bodies in the known universe. The only 'lack of evidence' is the absence of any evidence of a 5th force. But it's a thoroughly tested experimentally and theoretically lack of evidence. We know as well as we know anything in the world that there is no 5th force.
So, since stuff is accelerating towards the centre of the galaxy, there must be a force. Since 3 of 4 forces are ruled out the force must be gravity. Which means there must be mass. The mass we can see isn't massive enough to account for all of the force, so there must be some mass we don't see.
But our theories of gravity don't actually come from what we see. Back in the day the original gravitational theories may have been discoverd from looking at things falling and celestial objects moving through space. But nowadays gravity (and other forces/theories) are tested without actually looking at stuff (unless you count looking at the measurement apparatus to see the result). The gravitational force of various objects is routinely measured to extremely high precision without anyone having to 'see' anything.
My only point was that photons are only one of many particles and carry only one of four fundamental forces. All of those other particles and forces can be used as observational tools independent of photons. And observations based on them are just as valid. People saying that our evidence for dark matter is sketchy because it relies on gravity instead of light to observe it is like saying evidence for radiation in a room is sketchy because our particular detectors rely on the weak force and a click that we hear when a decay happens.
Also, weird: all this time I thought I couldn't post as myself in an article where I had already modded someone. Guess it's the other way around, can't mod in a thread I've already posted in?
It was your higher up post I was responding to, sorry.
GNOME, and open source apps in general being platform dependent is not sad (or true, but that's another argument). GNOME apps running at all in your Mac environment is no small feat. Closed source are completely platform dependent.
Yes, most is actually transparent. There are many particles that don't interact with photons. They don't emit or absorb light, so therefore are impossible to detect with light and they can't block light either. A small percentage of dark matter is thought to be 'normal' matter that does reflect light, but the universe is big and not so bright. It's rare to get a chunk of rock or ball of gas reflecting much light in our direction. Astronomers have a hard time detecting planets many times larger than Jupiter
For the reasons why dark matter must exist; some reasons are straight forward, some are more round-about-observations. The easiest one is from galaxies rotating too fast. The fact that they stay together means something is holding them together. Since we don't observe anything like a giant rope or hand of God holding our sun in place, the only logical explanation is gravity. Since we can't see enough matter to make this much gravity, it must be dark.
The dark matter that's hypothesized because of the large scale curvature of the universe is not as straight forward, especially since it was recently found that the universe seems to be accelerating in it's expansion.
I'd also like to point out that gravity, electrons and other particles or forces are no less valid than photons as observational tools. We really don't have to 'see' something to know it's there.
...American Indians simply aren't a large enough segment of the game buying public to make any difference whatsoever.
Well, I'm not American Indian and I won't buy it either.
Which doensn't mean much considering I'd never heard of the game 'till now. But if I had been about to buy it and found out about this boycott, it would have changed my mind.
Since when has prior art stopped a company from trying to pull a fast one with respect to patents? I didn't say they were succesful, but they wasted alot of his time.
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Don't feel bad. As an American living in Canada I remember NBC's coverage and know first hand how much better olympic coverage is here than in the states. Someone a few posts above was moaning about how NBC has all this hype and half-hour specials detailing some atheltes life and blah blah blah ad nauseum instead of showing the sports. And it made me glad that I'm here to enjoy this year's olympics. We aren't missing anything.
Blood Music by Greg Bear?
In it someone's "enzyme computers" got too smart.
No, I don't think it's unfair to pay more for a nicer car. That's because to make a nicer car more effort has to be made, more hours have to be worked, more ideas have to be thought over, than for a cheap car.
But that's not the situation with these Windows versions. Microsoft has a version that does everything. And they have deliberately handicapped the cheaper versions. It wouldn't take any extra manpower, extra parts or extra storage to give everyone the full version. But because it will lead to more money Microsoft is labeling each version with these false values.
Well, what you say is more understandable. But still, it doesn't take much research to learn that if you need to pick a distro for a company you can't really go wrong with Redhat or SUSE.
But really, saying that there's too many Linux distros isn't what gets zealots like me all in a knot. What is really irritating about these Windows versions is that capability was taken out of some versions on purpose. Instead of making the product better, some "developers" have been paid to actaully make the product worse. Such insanity would never happen in the open source world. If I pick the 'wrong' distro at least it's functionality isn't being limited on purpose.
Jesus fucking christ, don't be so ignorant. The only limitation to a Linux installation is the kernel. Anything else can be added without even rebooting.
But that's besides the point. The point is that there is no company or other entity telling someone what they can and can't do with their Linux installation just because they didn't pay enough money. Unlike this case with Windows where people will have to make trade offs between how much they want to spend and what they want to do with their OS.
So complaining and comparing the many Linux distros to these 8 Windows versions is fucking retarded. I can choose any of the top 8 Linux distros and be able to do anything in the Linux world easily.
But if I choose the budget version of Windows and find that it won't let me do something, well then I'm shit out of luck.
So let me get this straight. Some code is released under an open license and a proprietary company uses it line for line and that's perfectly fine legally and karma wise, but an open source project makes their stuff look vaguely like the proprietary company's stuff and it's called ripping it off? That's silly. Which one took more creativity? The verbatim copying or the slight similarities in look and feel which still had to be coded from scratch?
And your post shows how Apple can be a real dick. "We can take code from your project because it's open sourced, but don't you dare make your projects 'look' like ours or we'll sick the lawyers on you". Assholes.
Actually, that has been implemented since at least 2.12. Choosing 'Open' starts you in whatever directory you were already in, not your home directory. Typing a "/" opens a path bar for you to type in a location. Typing a letter brings you to the first file in that directory that starts with that letter. The AC you responded to just doesn't know what he's talking about.
Agreed. And what you're talking about is just for a business. Imagine how much more important it is to a whole country who may not be on good terms with the country producing the software.
The enemy's products, whose source code you can't see, is the farthest possible thing from "the right tool for the job".
One drawback to ppc Linux is that the commercial closed source programs offered for Linux are only x86. That includes 'free-beer' stuff too, like Acroread and flash. This was one of the reasons that kept me from buying another Mac.
If these new Macs eventually run Linux flawlessly I may get one.
You know, I wanted focus follows mouse for a long time, but then I realized that if you had focus follows mouse, you'd never be able to choose anything in the menus, unless you dragged the window to the top of the screen first to make sure it was the topmost window on your way to the menubar. So not only would you have to have focus follows mouse, but also menus tied to individual apps instead of globally. Forget about it.
Sounds like that's a problem with having the menubar at the top of the screen. What would be nice is if OSX gave you a choice in the matter. Both with the menubar and focus-follows-mouse.
Hey genius, it never occured to you that some people prefer Linux? Some of those people also like Apple hardware.
Not everone has wet dreams about OSX.
Except that the CRTC has nothing to do with what I can and can't view on the 'net.
Searches for all these have come up negative so far as I'm aware, but there is still good reason to hope for a discovery soon.
Well then, good news everyone! Neutrinos were found to be massive a few years ago. The Sudbury neutrino observatory showed that solar neutrinos travel to earth in a superposition of two different types of neutrinos. They observed oscillations with respect to time between the measured populations of the two states meaning that the energies of the two states were different. For their energies to be different there must be some mass difference which places a lower bound on at least one of their masses.
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The first extra-solar planets were detected by noticing that the stars they orbited wobbled slightly. No one actually saw the planets, they just came to the conclusion that the wobble was caused by a massive body rotating the star. One could conclude that the wobble was caused by God or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but that would be ignoring a lack of evidence, namely that we've never observed God or Flying Spaghetti Monster.
There are four fundamental forces. The weak and strong forces are too short range to hold planets or stars or solar systems or galaxies together. No celestial object has ever been found to hold a large net charge, so the electromagnetic force is out as well. That leaves gravity, the force that has so far explained every single observation of moving bodies in the known universe. The only 'lack of evidence' is the absence of any evidence of a 5th force. But it's a thoroughly tested experimentally and theoretically lack of evidence. We know as well as we know anything in the world that there is no 5th force.
So, since stuff is accelerating towards the centre of the galaxy, there must be a force. Since 3 of 4 forces are ruled out the force must be gravity. Which means there must be mass. The mass we can see isn't massive enough to account for all of the force, so there must be some mass we don't see.
Ah. Thanks for the insight.
You're right. I'm writing my thesis right now so I may be in a "sound like you know everything" state of mind.
But our theories of gravity don't actually come from what we see. Back in the day the original gravitational theories may have been discoverd from looking at things falling and celestial objects moving through space. But nowadays gravity (and other forces/theories) are tested without actually looking at stuff (unless you count looking at the measurement apparatus to see the result). The gravitational force of various objects is routinely measured to extremely high precision without anyone having to 'see' anything.
My only point was that photons are only one of many particles and carry only one of four fundamental forces. All of those other particles and forces can be used as observational tools independent of photons. And observations based on them are just as valid. People saying that our evidence for dark matter is sketchy because it relies on gravity instead of light to observe it is like saying evidence for radiation in a room is sketchy because our particular detectors rely on the weak force and a click that we hear when a decay happens.
Also, weird: all this time I thought I couldn't post as myself in an article where I had already modded someone. Guess it's the other way around, can't mod in a thread I've already posted in?
It was your higher up post I was responding to, sorry.
GNOME, and open source apps in general being platform dependent is not sad (or true, but that's another argument). GNOME apps running at all in your Mac environment is no small feat. Closed source are completely platform dependent.
Yes, most is actually transparent. There are many particles that don't interact with photons. They don't emit or absorb light, so therefore are impossible to detect with light and they can't block light either. A small percentage of dark matter is thought to be 'normal' matter that does reflect light, but the universe is big and not so bright. It's rare to get a chunk of rock or ball of gas reflecting much light in our direction. Astronomers have a hard time detecting planets many times larger than Jupiter
For the reasons why dark matter must exist; some reasons are straight forward, some are more round-about-observations. The easiest one is from galaxies rotating too fast. The fact that they stay together means something is holding them together. Since we don't observe anything like a giant rope or hand of God holding our sun in place, the only logical explanation is gravity. Since we can't see enough matter to make this much gravity, it must be dark.
The dark matter that's hypothesized because of the large scale curvature of the universe is not as straight forward, especially since it was recently found that the universe seems to be accelerating in it's expansion.
I'd also like to point out that gravity, electrons and other particles or forces are no less valid than photons as observational tools. We really don't have to 'see' something to know it's there.
Did you know the site you linked to has nothing to do with Ubuntu Linux? Nice program though.
Does anyone have an idea as to how hard it would be to break the encryption scheme being placed on the next gen technology?
Have no fear, DVD-Jon is here.
Nope, but I just wanted to point out to parent that it's not only Native Americans who might participate in the boycott.
...American Indians simply aren't a large enough segment of the game buying public to make any difference whatsoever.
Well, I'm not American Indian and I won't buy it either.
Which doensn't mean much considering I'd never heard of the game 'till now. But if I had been about to buy it and found out about this boycott, it would have changed my mind.
Since when has prior art stopped a company from trying to pull a fast one with respect to patents? I didn't say they were succesful, but they wasted alot of his time.